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March Online Features

The Sound of Music at New Wimbledon Theatre

Impressive production values and first class musical direction raise the bar for a much-loved classic, The Sound of Music. Aliya Al Hassan sees it at the New Wimbledon Theatre where it is showing until April 11... Read More ›

Chocolicious: sweeties and superfoods

Sweet Virtues is a business that makes guilty pleasures a little less... well, guilty. Sophie Farrah joined a (literal) taster evening to find out how... Read More ›

Interview with Strictly Come Dancing’s Pasha Kovalev

Since learning to dance at the age of eight, Pasha Kovalev has blazed a trail from the cold of Siberia to the scorching ballroom of Strictly. Ahead of tour dates in Richmond, he talks to Jane McGowan about glitz, glamour, and the glitterball trophy... Read More ›

Actors perform passion play in Richmond town centre

Becky King talks to former BBC Head of Series Peter Cregeen about the ambitious Passion play he is staging in the centre of Richmond on Good Friday It is... Read More ›

Austentatious at the Olympic Cinema, Barnes

An improvised comedy show delivered in the style of Jane Austen? Crazy but brilliant, as Sophie Farrah discovered when she caught up with it at the Olympic Cinema in Barnes... Read More ›

We meet BBC2′s Kew on a Plate chef Raymond Blanc

Raymond Blanc, the French-born chef currently gracing our screens with presenter Kate Humble on BBC2′s Kew on a Plate takes time out from the veg patch to talk to Catherine Whyte as his Farnham... Read More ›

Southfields actor Peter Duncan stars in Birdsong

A still youthful Peter Duncan tells Miranda Jessop about the acting role in Birdsong bringing him to Richmond Theatre and reflects on his time as a kids’ TV presenter Sometimes... Read More ›

Review: Play Mas at the Orange Tree

The scene is 1950s Trinidad and it's carnival time. But beneath the fun and games, serious tensions are building as Sophie Farrah discovers. Until April 11 at The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond... Read More ›